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that things had gone too far and tried to crack down on the Baltics. “The only rea- r son they failed is they came to appoint beyond which they were not prepared to go,” he said. “They were not prepared to kill more than a handful of people. Thousands set up a 24-hour vigil so the govemmemts could not be taken without a tremendous loss of life.”
Mr. Purnell said the process became ireversible. “Gorbachov became a man whose time had passed,” he said. At the time when Gorbachov was welcomed as a hero in the United States “in St Petersburg the Russians saw that on Soviet TV and turned it off. ‘Don’t Americans understand this man is holding us back?’ they asked.” . In response to dozens of questions, Mr. Purnell said he would not recommend something like a Marshall Plan for the Russia.
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